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Part of the social contract in most societies is that the police are the only members of society who can use enough force to kill or injure anyone critically. The governments of these societies create laws to ensure that it is only special well regulated instances when an ordinary citizen can use deadly force (hunting of lower animals and self defense being two examples in the United States). Anywhere these guns can be manufactured successfully thwarts the old laws and contracts.

This means that it will be a "Problem", but no one can say for who. The big gun manufactures are going to be pissed and are already probably already preparing legislation to bitch slap any one who tries to produce these guns. The liberator people are working on making the guns not explode and hurt anyone. The police are scrambling to figure out how to reclaim their sole ownership of force. The people are waiting to see what happens.

You obviously are not above average in terms of height. I'm 6'5" and planes are a nightmare of cramps and bruised knees. A single inch can mean the difference between being able to sleep comfortably on a long flight and staying awake while stiffening up for eight hours.

If you're interested in using Titan from Clojure, then you'll probably want to take a look at Titanium[0] and Ogre[1]. We've been working hard to make these libraries as useful as possible. If you have any questions about how to get started, then please get in touch! My contact information is in my profile. I've been immersed pretty deep in this stack lately and it's been pretty rewarding so far.

[0] http://titanium.clojurewerkz.org/ [1] http://ogre.clojurewerkz.org/

The author is is almost exactly the exact opposite of the ideal customer for any startup. He is a venture capitalist and an ad man. He is in the business of buying the startup instead of buying from the startup. He sees orders of magnitudes more startup websites in a month than a customer ever will in their lifetime. He will be looking far more closely at the advertising side of things than a customer and will probably over apply his expertise. Therefore, I don't think his advice will probably be all that useful to founders. Ad hominem is a logical fallacy, but a bayesian's crutch. You can logic it out for yourself, but I don't think this guy knows what he is talking about.

1. They might actually know what they are doing or 2. they aren't doing payments of the sort that needs this sort of license.

Probably because there are like a billion other things he has to do.

How does one go about signing up?

What are the chances that in the next month pg publishes an essay calling for why more startups should be doing hardware, bitcoin, and/or 3D printing?

And now this is a test of how secure HN is as well.

That was easily one of the best bits of video I've seen in a long time. That explains a lot of science really well. Thank you!

Would you pay money for it?

Or it could be that YC knows Mathematica and/or matlab are thinking about launching a cloud computing service. Mathematica definitely is and it will most likely ROFLstomp whatever these guys and other competitors are coming up with. Computer algebra systems and numerical analysis aren't just topics you can sprinkle with "Cloud" dust and have it come out right. Unless these guys have years of experience, YC probably made a prudent decision.

Cost of ticket would offset cheap housing probably. Any small midwest town would work and be much easier to reach.

Use bayesian logic first! They're yellow therefore they are likely electric type. Cast a rockslide spell first and see if you get type damage.

Did the speedup of script execution have other costs? One would imagine that using Clojurescript would incur some other costs somewhere. This feels like a free lunch somehow.

I'm here for the next month or so. @ZackMaril

It doesn't seem to be over yet.

https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe/status/323885037877608448

From an earlier comment on here: >Do I honestly think that there is a whole team of engineers sitting around charting out menstrual cycles for 50% of their users? Nope. Is there a nonzero chance that it might be happening or could happen soon? Yeah I think so.

I'm not so sure that they are doing any of this. I have no proof at all, I don't think anyone outside of Facebook could have proof of anything. The point of the article isn't that I think they are doing this right now, but that they might have reason to do so in the future. Like you've pointed out, they would be fucked if they tried any of this, but it doesn't mean they won't try something similar in terms of data mining and selling your derived personal information to interested 3rd parties.

I'll bet on each tweet I sent out once. I've already got somebody to take me up on Facebook predicting sickness. Send me an email with the bet you want and we can work out the terms of the bet for the tweet you think is a stinker.

For you and I, it's enough to say "I don't trust them". For the normal users of Facebook, people like my classmates, friends, and family members, they have no way of knowing what I mean when I say I don't trust Facebook. They cannot imagine what you and I know to be possible, if not highly improbable. The first question they ask after me saying I don't trust them is why? I've had to explain some variant of this many many times lately and so I've written it up as something I can send them.

And yeah, I'm worried about google, my bank, my phone operator(no smartphone though), and my ISPs. Just because all of these other companies do it doesn't mean it's alright for them to do. I hate that there are hundreds of files out there that have data along the lines of "Zack Maril, Male, 21". I'd like to find ways to prevent companies from collecting all of that information about me. (Using DuckDuckGo and cash only would probably be a great start.)

Is it the same tweet every time? The first five words should be the same in each tweet but the rest of each one should be unique.

Thanks for the title correction.

Mostly this came about from a thought experiment in guessing what information they can figure out about you based on your profile. Do I honestly think that there is a whole team of engineers sitting around charting out menstrual cycles for 50% of their users? Nope. Is there a nonzero chance that it might be happening or could happen soon? Yeah I think so. My main beef is that facebook can infer a ton of information about me that I don't want them to know and that they could someday be selling to people who I really don't want to know that information.

Also 6 billion people don't have a Facebook account, but condition on Americans between the ages of 18 and 30, and the rate of account ownership will probably go way way up. Those are the people who always ask me why I don't have one. Almost everyone I know has one and I really do have to explain once a week why I don't have one and don't want them to make one for me.

I'm twenty-one and the email referenced something called "Excited Live". Can anybody explain what that was? Google hasn't been much help.

The signup flow was really well done. A minor nitpick: put the social buttons at the bottom of the model after the (see sample -> signup -> congrats) process.

I'm excited to get these emails!

The author seems to think that because a language supports functional programming, it cannot support mutable state in any form. It would be worthwhile to actually look into what sort of support for various types of state that a language like Clojure has (http://clojure.org/state). There are at least 3 ways off the top of my head that I can change the value of a variable in a Clojure process during runtime. It's obviously not the sort of control over state that you have in C++, but it's a far cry from define a variable once and that's all you can do.

Could you please provide an example of flash that replicates the above example? I'd love to see the code and compare the two.

I have no problem shelling out the money for the (student) license. I've worked at Wolfram and I could probably swing a free license anyway. There are already a variety of clones out there that can do some of what Mathematica already does. d3 and javascript can replicate some of the manipulate work. I mean, look at session: https://github.com/kovasb/session

Mathematica being open source would mean that I could look at the source though and see what the hell is going on inside. I'd love to see how they are doing call outs to R and trace through all the interactions between the kernel, the user interface, and W|A. If it were open source, I could see the implementations of all the Mathematical algorithms and look at all the neat optimizations and new results they have found during their work. I care about the "math in Mathematica and am interested in seeing how it all works.

Some notable features:

Call outs to R code http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-9/built-in-integra...

Social network analysis http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-9/social-network-a...

Computation bar http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-9/next-computation...

Sigh. I dream of Mathematica being open source.

Most of my comment comes from the fact that Eich originally wanted to build a homoiconic lisp for netscape and built many of the features into javascript instead. Still no a lisp ,but it was designed to be similar. http://www.2ality.com/2011/03/javascript-how-it-all-began.ht...

It's pretty damn close. First class functions give javascript great power. Combined with something like sweet.js and underscore, and javascript becomes a language with the functional library of a lisp along with macros. After that, javascript is just lisp with really weird syntax.